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Re: Bob Zumbrunnen post# 71284

Friday, 08/18/2006 1:48:43 PM

Friday, August 18, 2006 1:48:43 PM

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Bob, while I certainly sympathize...

...with the rigors of running a busy Message Board website (I even posted earlier this week about you guys deserving a raise for dealing with all the "SCREWBALLS" that reside here)...


http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=12722009


...this whole idea of "cops", "snitches" and "informers" among us is an experiment that has been done before and with disastrous results.

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Do a little reading about the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" that was conducted by Professor Phillip Zimbardo back in 1971...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment


...about the earlier "Milgram Experiment" conducted by Stanley Milgram back in 1961 when he was working toward his Phd. at Harvard.

In this study of "Obedience to Authority" Milgram found, surprisingly, that 65% of his subjects, ordinary residents of New Haven, were willing to give apparently harmful electric shocks-up to 450 volts - to a pitifully protesting victim, simply because a scientific authority commanded them to, and in spite of the fact that the victim did not do anything to deserve such punishment...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment


...and even more recently "Abu Ghraib Prison" (granted this an extreme example and may not be as applicable as the Stanford and Milgram Studies). Nevertheless...


http://www.slate.com/id/2100419/


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Look...bottom line when you put seemingly "good people" in positions of authority...with some newly acquired POWER over their peers...AND...you give that person the blessing of "Management" to ENFORCE THE RULES...you have a potential recipe for disaster and abuse !

Circumstances can distort individual personalities -- and ANYONE...I repeat ANYONE...when given complete control over others, can act like a monster.

You are embarking on a VERY "slippery slope" here in my opinion !



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